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Material Selection

08/23/2010 2:05 AM

Hello Everyone:

Would you kindly please help me with this?

I want to know the steps toward creating P.M.S (Especially, selecting the materials and wall thickness calculation) in projects.
For creating the P.M.S for a project we usually use the previous experiences or sometimes the client asks us to use their P.M.S as a base.
As I know the following steps should be taken for selecting the materials and calculating the wall thickness:
1- Generating the PFD from Process Dep.
2- Generating the Material Selection Diagram by Material & Welding Dep.
3-Calculating the Corrosion rate.

4-Calculating the corrosion allowance (which is a part of wall thickness calculation in P.M.S)
After these 4 steps we are going to calculate the wall thickness according to the paragraph 304.1.1 of standard ASME B31.3)

My questions are as follow:

1-For generating the MSD how we should select the material? I have reviewed a lot of standards and specs but I could not find what I am looking for. I am really interested to have a reference for selecting the materials in this regards).
2-How we should calculate the corrosion rate in Normal condition (without CO2)?
3-I am looking for a few solved examples for both, with CO2 and without CO2.
4-Please let me know if I am wrong, and also please advise me.
Best regards,

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Re: Material selection

08/23/2010 2:45 AM

Farzad,

Your question is quite complicated. A material selection is a complex task that needs to consider a lot of different parameters and conditions and it is not possible to give an exhaustive reply in a forum. In my opinion you should consult a corrosion engineer who can give you advice on how to select material.

There are some good books like the one below that you can use as a guide:

http://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Hydrocarbon-Chemical-Plants/dp/0824797787

There are also some standards like the NORSOK M001 and the M506 to calculate corrosion due to CO2:

http://www.standard.no/en/sectors/Petroleum/NORSOK-Standard-Categories/M-Material/M-5061/

Here you can find other documents on material selection:

http://www.stainless-steel-world.net/pdf/10073.pdf

Or there is also software like this one:

http://www.intercorr.com/software/socrates/socflyer.pdf

Hope this helps you.

S

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Re: Material selection

08/23/2010 5:14 AM

Such a very amazing link!

Thanks you for the post.

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Re: Material selection

08/26/2010 6:35 AM

Thank you very much for your posting and also for good references.

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Re: Material Selection

08/23/2010 5:54 PM

Personally I try to avoid her when she is having PMS.

The point being, acronyms mean different things to different people. NEVER use acronyms on a technical forum like this, at least not unless you define them in the post so that everyone knows what you are talking about. you never know what sort of answer you'll get, if any.

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Re: Material Selection

08/26/2010 6:38 AM

O.K

Thanks for your advice.

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